Chapter 233: Furious Contemplations

Name：Magical Marvel (HP X MCU) Author：
+ - Turn off Reset
Chapter 233: Furious Contemplations

If you want to support me check out my patron at /athassprkr

I tend to upload drafts of early chapters on there to get people's opinions of them.

I would like to thank my beta, Akisu, for his help in this chapter.

---------------

19th September 2012, New York City

(Jasmine Sayre POV)

But with half of their mutant roster gone, and the decrease in mutant criminals due to the mass migration to Genosha, it proved that SHIELD wasn't needed for things to remain stable. Fury was doing his best to disprove that, by trying to either recruit or arrest as many mutants as he could.

It was a very dangerous policy to take, not to mention incredibly risky. But, for now, Fury was a man with nothing to lose, and that was a scary thought to have.

If anything, the next few days will prove to be interesting at the very least. I ended up spending hours with Selene, Wanda and Rose, chatting up, making jokes. It was nice to see that the ritual didn't seem to have affected the way I felt about them. I chose not to overthink things, as the day concluded, and I went to sleep. I'll worry about it tomorrow. For now, I will sleep and mourn my friend's death in peace.

---------------

27th September 2012, New York City

(Nick Fury POV)

However, that didn't explain why over half the agents in the company quit their positions at once a month later. Sitwell, Garret, Ward, Mallick, Rumlow and so many more. It was horrible and SHIELD was crippled from the inside. Also, something felt fishy about the entire thing. These people didn't seem to care about the public's opinion and yet they just walked out one day, resigned, without even saying why they left, only claiming that it was for personal reasons.

The public was against them, their agents were leaving them out to dry. SHIELD was falling, the legacy of Howard Stark and Peggy Carter, was going up in flames and Fury had no idea what to do.

The worst thing though, was the disappearance of mutants all over the world. Most of the mutants who had joined SHIELD had just disappeared one day, along with their families. All the mutants they were keeping tabs on had the same issue. It was worrying, not just for SHIELD, but for the safety of the entire world. The truth is that one of the main reasons the UN keeps funding SHIELD, is because they delay them having to deal with the mutant issue. SHIELD represented a path for mutants to live as agents for humanity, protecting the world from threats while not making trouble for their respective governments. The more mutants joined SHIELD, the less likely it is for there to be mutant crimes on the streets. And the disappearance of mutants showed how little impact SHIELD has made on the issue, which was another black mark on their record.

And to make things worse, mutants disappearing, means that someone is either recruiting or kidnapping them, which means that someone out there has an entire army of mutants at his or her disposal, which didn't bode well for the rest of the world.

Fury had chosen to double down and keep finding mutants and recruit them before they're kidnapped, but he was always late, losing a possible asset for SHIELD. Even the Avengers chose not to help him. As a team, they had chosen to keep their distance from SHIELD and all governments to avoid any questions on the missions they'll be taking on.

It was understandable, but what was surprising was that it was Stark who had made the suggestion to do so, which even Romanoff and Barton agreed to be the right thing to do, especially with how the public still kept crucifying SHIELD today.

It was a low blow; Fury had been the one who gave Romanoff a chance instead of just killing her outright, he was the one who helped Barton set up his family, he was the one who dug up Captain America from the arctic, and he was the one who helped Stark find a replacement for the Palladium in his arc reactor, saving his life. To see this team spit upon everything he had done for them was painful, even if it helped them realize Fury's dream of an entire team of superheroes from all around the world, protecting the world from the threats from the stars.

As for now, SHIELD needed a win, and it needed it desperately. He needed to catch someone big, someone that the public would hate even more than them. He had no idea where to start, and with the UN vote being so close, he was running out of time.

As Fury was pondering all of this from his office on the Triskelion, Maria Hill entered the room. The woman was one of the main reasons Fury didn't go crazy in the last few months. She was a rock, efficient and loyal to a fault, and the director of SHIELD appreciated all the effort she made in helping him try to salvage the current situation. For some reason, she had a small smile on her face, "Sir."

He nodded, "Hill."

"We have some news."

Fury nodded and she continued, "the satellites have found Jasmine Sayre in a restaurant in New York."

The director of SHIELD had a bloodthirsty smile on his face. Well, if an opportunity presented itself, just before the UN vote, he was going to take advantage of it. After all, he had nothing to lose and everything to gain.